Re: "We are professional grade"

nonsense wrote:
> Doug Adams wrote:
> 
>> Many of us need the big vehicles to pull equipment around and actually 
>> work (farm). I am not aware of a Toyota or Nissan that will do what my 
>> Duramax Chevy does! You sound like some geek that sits on his ass 
>> behind a keyboard, without a life and posts B.S. trying to make 
>> yourself feel like someone. If you don't like American cars why don't 
>> you move to India. I hear they are building cars over there now. Take 
>> your rice burner and go post on a toyota newgroup, that way the people 
>> who want to help out other people with GM vehicles don't have to read 
>> your B.S.
> 
> I've had to cut back my 2004 Silverado use to 99.9%
> off highway use, only for those jobs that nothing
> else I currently own can do for me, like snowplowing.
> It is not affordable for runs into town any longer or
> general usage.
> 
> Once I finish paying for the thing (0% interest note
> from GMAC.....and now I know why) I'll be replacing
> it with some sort of rice burner.

Did the vehicle not have the mileage stickers on them when you bought 
them? Did GM increase the price of crude oil?

If you think that a Toyota Tundra or similar vehicle get better mileage, 
think again.

> I'll buy a couple
> of older junkers to take care of the off-road chores.
> I don't need to tie up a gas guzzler that cost me
> close to $30,000 but is unaffordable for the highway
> usage I was doing with it when I bought the thing.
> Hell, it costs me well over $3 to run home for lunch
> from the fields. That alone is $360 a year here. Brown
> bag it is, or take the car.
> 
> Fuel prices doubling since I've owned it are mostly
> to blame. It is now the equivalent of a truck that
> gets 5mpg at the old prices. I'd *never* have bought
> it had I foreseen what Uncle Sam has allowed to
> happen to us.

Gee, Uncle Sam does set the price of oil.

> Hell no, I am not at all happy with this American steel.

The American steel is just fine. The problem is that you don't need it.

> I have enough older working tractors and an almost new
> ATV that I don't need a pickup truck for field work.
> Trailers are cheap for cartage. And anything will pull
> them down the highway.

Good, you've found ways to save fuel already.

Jeff